Continuing the tradition of having at least one of the NES archive sidebars not have anything to do with the NES, I now present the 1999.11.20 edition of |tsr's k-rad list. I list important things going on in the world, and rate them in the scale of "k-rad", "not k-rad" and "soz". Since the TV has Cartoon Network on when the NES is off, the list will probably be filled with comix, manga and animation. Here you go:

- Power Rangers in the Lost Galaxy: K-rad.
- The Scooby-Doo Project: not K-rad. The biggest disappointment of 1999.
- I Am Weasel: K-rad! Who can still watch Star Trek: The Next Generation with a straight face! I can imagine Worf saying "Commander, I will beam down to intercept the aliens... for I, am, Weasel!"
- Space Jam: Soz.
- The current voices for WB characters: Soz! I can do a better Tweety than that!
- Courage The Cowardly Dog: That short was k-rad. The series is not k-rad.
- Mike, Lu and Og: I still haven't seen it. It's, like, the only thing CN doesn't repeat on late night.
- That one Nickelodeon cartoon with the chick with braces who can talk to animals: Ooon, more or less k-rad.
- Amanda Anaconda or whatever (Canadian toon on Fox Family): Soz! Everyone looks scary!
- Popeye directed by Dave Fleischer: K-rad.
- Popeye after that: Not k-rad.
- The original Segar Thimble Theatre newspaper comic with Popeye: The most k-rad of all! (Check a library.)
- The way Flake News used to be a cool web site, but then published a book and turned the site into a big ad for it: Soz.
- Pokemon - The First Movie: Not so k-rad.
- Pikachu's Vacation: K-rad! Trippy! Yellow Submarine has nothing on that short.
- The Gary Coleman Show: Any show that presupposes that Gary Coleman has died is k-rad with me.
- Dexter's Laboratory: K-rad.
- Cow & Chicken: Definitely not k-rad.
- Those 2 new Yogi Bear toons: Not k-rad.
- Taking the Mathematica section for math courses: K-rad.
- Toonami: Automatically not k-rad for tacking new intro sequences on everything they show, but let's dissect it anyway.
- Sailor Moon: K-rad if only for the screenwriters' desperate attempts to show the series was not set in Japan.
- Ronin Warriors: Not k-rad.
- Thundercats: Surprisingly k-rad.
- Voltron: Probably not quite as k-rad as I remembered it. And no, I did not have the 3-ft tall complete robot as a kid. I had a Castle Greyskull.
- Robotech: Not k-rad.
- Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirdman: K-rad!
- Space Ghost: I think all incarnations are k-rad.
- Road Runner: Not k-rad.
- Catdog: Not k-rad.
- Hey Arnold: Not k-rad.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: They will always be k-rad. Except for that live action TV show at the end.
- Stickin' Around (another Canadian show, shown as a Fox summer replacement): Incredibly k-rad! Anyone got tapes?
- Kanji & Kana, Revised Edition by Hadamitzky and Spahn: Kind of k-rad, but not enough examples.
- Most of the manga that gets translated into English and published here: Not k-rad. Sorry.
- Most of the manga that got published in Mangajin: K-rad.
- The Honeymooners: K-rad.
- Cats: Not k-rad.
- Dogs: K-rad. Except for the kind me grandma enjoys.
- Raccoooons: Not k-rad.
- Bears: K-rad. I mean the animal kind.
- Dolphins: Soz.
- Horses: K-rad.
- Speed Racer: Holy shitballs! There cannot be anything more k-rad than this.
- This dude in the matrix class I'm taking that plays multiplayer net shooters all day, MUDs the rest of the day, and asks incredibly inane questions in class: Not k-rad. And he reads Star Wars novels in class, too.
- Cartoon Planet: Wow, that was a k-rad show while it lasted.
- Zoobooks: I donno, it looks like you can learn a lot about animals if you read it.
- WEFT 90.1 Champaign: K-rad. Although it'd be neat if there was a SIDtune show.
- SID tunes: K-rad.
- Adlib tunes: Not k-rad.
- Any music from George Alisdair "The Fat Man" Sanger: Soz.
- Alistair from You Can't Do That on Television: K-rad. I had a thing for Lisa Ruddy too.
- Rocky and Bullwinkle: I don't think it's as k-rad as people say.
- The Boondocks: It has yet to prove to me whether it's k-rad or not.
- Siberia Tetsudo Satsujinjiken (シベリア鉄道殺人事件) by Kyotaro Nishimura: K-rad.
- Six Flags Theme Parks: Soz for suddenly firing all their seasonal workers.
- Williams pinball: All extremely k-rad. But they can't make a profit, while Sega can make South Park pinballs until hell freezes over. That's life.
- South Park: K-rad.
- Gobliins II from Coktel Vision: K-rad!
- Wolfenstein 3d: K-rad.
- Everything after that: Not k-rad.
- C-Span airing the proceedings of the British House of Commons: K-rad.
- ESPN2 airing soccer: Not k-rad.
- Mean Machines: Not k-rad.
- CVG: Soz.
- PC Format, even now: K-rad.
- Computer Gaming World up to about 96: K-rad.
- Computer Gaming World after 96: Soz. What the hell happened? Ziff-Davis, that's what!
- The t-shirt that came with SNES Illusion of Gaia: K-rad.
- Meijer Macaroni and Cheese, White Cheese flavor: K-rad (hint: it's Kraft M+C without the orange coloring and therefore 15 cents cheaper).
- Rugrats: Not k-rad. First off I don't like the voice-synth music.
- If I had a time machine, then it would be: K-rad.
- Second Reality from Future Screw: K-rad.
- FCI Super Time, a Japanese news program for dudes in the US: Not k-rad.
- The CCTV (China) news, English edition: K-rad.
- Alas Singko y Medya: K-rad. And it's got a super k-rad theme tune!
- SCOLA 1: K-rad. Except they always cut off programs just when they're at the good part.
- A&W Root Beer: K-rad because it's always on sale.
- Cherry Coke: Soz.
- The way my 32mbit EPROM Game Boy cart is the same clear purple color as my Game Boy Color: K-rad.
And finally, The Powerpuff Girls: Kind of k-rad, I guess.

Roulette from Nintendo Company
Japan <Roulette from Nintendo Company
Japan Proving that Nintendo's first USA product was not
arcade games, this is a cheap, small roulette set with a
tiny white plastic ball going around a wheel about the
size of an NES game. There's no date, but from the looks
of things it's from around the 60s. Check the funky
Nintendo logo on the side of the box!

Disney cup from CapcomDouble Dragon board game from Tiger Electronics Tiger's first and only non-electronic game. Even though they licensed the game from
Technos Japan, screenshots from the NES version (and not the arcade) are used on
the board.

Mario Shampoo from ? Mario vending machine insert from Nintendo This is an insert meant for use with the 25-cent gumballmachine-style vendors you see
at K-Marts. This machine was meant to sell various Mario-related cards and stickers. Avoid the gotcha?

Mad #291, January 1990This cover was by longtime Mad artist Sam
Viviano. Many hundreds of kids (including me) wrote to
the magazine soon after this issue to point out a mistake
- Viviano put an "M" on both Mario and Luigi's
cap...

Early Famicom advertisement flyer
from NintendoThis ad features most of Nintendo's early FC games.
It's hard to see from the scan, but the flyer mentions
one unreleased game called Donkey Kong Music
Education (Donkey Kong Ongaku Kyouiku).